Don "Big Daddy" Garlits crawls under the dash of his 1966 Chrysler speedboat and prods for the problem.
Big Daddy spent the next 50 years smashing record after record and becoming drag racing's most storied and fearless pioneer.Don Garlits in 1967. (Getty Images)
The vessel was a gift from the car company to the famed drag racer not long after he became the first man to officially top 200 miles per hour on a quarter-mile strip. That was back in August 1964, at a track in Great...